Weinsteinian

comparative more Weinsteinian · superlative most Weinsteinian

1. Of, relating to, or resembling American film producer Harvey Weinstein or his behavior, particularly sex offending.

   It’s a satire of the entertainment business set largely in New York, at an indie-film company run by a female Weinsteinian producer.

   2005 September 22, Boris Kachka, “The Gist: ‘The Diviners’”, in New York, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2009

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   When it comes to Weinsteinian behavior and related evils, things probably haven’t ever been as bad in modern America as they were for a time in the 1970s.

   2017 October 14, Ross Douthat, “The ’70s and Us”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2017

   For Lochhead, this “disgraceful sexual boast … seemed very like a rape of his heavily pregnant girlfriend. It’s very, very Weinsteinian.”

   2018 January 24, John Dugdale, “Robert Burns: was the beloved poet a 'Weinsteinian sex pest'?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2024

   But despite his waxworks appearance, pre-Weinsteinian penchant for priapic innuendo and lingering criminal trials, Mr. Berlusconi, a former Italian prime minister, is no longer the joke of European politics.

   2018 January 30, Jason Horowitz, “Berlusconi Is Back. Again. This Time, as Italy’s ‘Nonno’”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2018